Indian Rebellion of 1857
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British Officers of the EIC army. A force multiplier.
Omar Ali posts excerpts from Agha H. Amin’s work on the 1857 rebellion, whose summary holds that British officers were a crucial force multiplier in the East India Company army…
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Causes of the Revolt of 1857
In a long piece by Major Amin, presented unedited, the causes of the 1857 rebellion are traced from India’s geography of repeated invasions through the socio-political conditions of the period,…
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BrownCast Podcast episode 13: The British Indian Army
Omar talks to Major Agha Humayun Amin and Dr Hamid Hussain about the British Indian Army: the East India Company’s army, the 1857 mutiny, the army afterwards, and the role…
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1857: The Central Indian Campaign
A chapter from Major Amin’s history of the Sepoy Rebellion on the Central India campaign of 1857 to 1859. He argues that it covered the widest area and took the…
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Mangal Pandey. Truth and Fiction
Hamid Hussain checks scene by scene how far the film Mangal Pandey: The Rising follows the historical record, noting that its core facts are broadly intact but that the Afghanistan…
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Mangal Pandey. Truth and Fiction
Hamid Hussain checks the film Mangal Pandey: The Rising against the historical record, scene by scene, finding the core facts of the 1857 episode kept intact but much invented, such…
